King's Lock

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King's Lock
Waterway	River Thames
County	Oxfordshire
Maintained by	Environment Agency
Operation	Manual
First built	1928
Length	113’ 1” (34.46m)
Width	16’ 4” (4.97m)
Fall	2’ 6” (0.77m)
Above Sea Level	192'
Distance to Teddington Lock	97 miles

King's Lock
legend River Thames Eynsham Lock & weir Wharf Stream River Evenlode Seacourt Stream Oxford Canal Dukes Lock (on Dukes Cut) railway bridge A40 road bridge King's Lock weir weir and old mill A34 road bridges Godstow Road bridges weir weir Godstow Lock Seacourt Stream (To Osney Lock) River Thames

King's Lock is a lock on the River Thames in England. It is in open country to the north of Oxford,Oxfordshire on the southern bank of the river.

The lock was one of the last pound locks built on the Thames being built by the Thames Conservancy in 1928. The lock had first been proposed over a hundred years previously in 1817. Until the lock was built there was portage for small boats over the weir and a flash lock which was rebuilt in 1885.

At the lock there is a large island. Behind this is the start of the Duke's Cut which connects the Thames to the Oxford Canal and to a back stream that used to serve the papermill at Wolvercote and which rejoins the Thames at Godstow Lock.

The weir is on the other side of the island

Contents 1 Access to the lock 2 Reach above the lock 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Access to the lock

The lock can be reached down a long track which leads from the Godstow road just where it passes under the A34 Oxford by-pass.

[edit] Reach above the lock

Above the lock is the connection with Dukes Cut. The river runs through completely open country and halfway along the River Evenlode joins from the northern side. Wharf Stream also joins on the same side just before Eynsham Lock.

The Thames Path follows the southern bank to Eynsham Lock.

[edit] See also

• Locks on the River Thames

[edit] External links

• King's Lock at fellwalk.co.uk
• Photograph of King's Lock at geograph.org.uk

Next lock upstream	River Thames	Next lock downstream
Eynsham Lock 3.71 miles	King's Lock Grid reference: SP478102	Godstow Lock 1.13 miles